On Friday 07 June 2002 07:43, Sreenivasan N. wrote: >. . . > We are also focusing on customizing the output depend on the selection. > i.e > CASE 1 : one user wants project description of all the projects in the > organisation > CASE 2: Aggregated output of selected projects
If I understand right, you're talking selection/sorting here. In Cocoon itself, you could use XSLT transforms to do these selections and sorts, but to get good performance you'd need to prepare some kind of "map files" in XML that would contain lists of directories or file names, mapped to project identifiers. Depending on the number of documents and directories and on the frequency of updates, this could quickly become too slow or impractical, at which point you will need some kind of database (XML or relational) to hold these maps. This kind of "file attributes database" is not a standard part of Cocoon today AFAIK, you'd have to build it yourself or use external components for this. What Cocoon offers today is easy access to SQL databases and good integration with the XIndice XML database. There have been talks recently on cocoon-dev about using the Slide content management system as a back-end, but it's not there yet. > CASE 3: Appliying filter for the documents and getting the output.. If this means filtering XML documents and converting to presentation formats (HTML, PDF, RTF, etc.), then yes, that's exactly what Cocoon does. Hope this helps! -- Bertrand Delacrétaz (codeconsult.ch, jfor.org) buzzwords: XML, java, XSLT, cocoon, mentoring/teaching/coding. disclaimer: eternity is very long. mostly towards the end. get ready. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
